We’re in a vicious climate cycle, and nowhere is this more obvious than through the lens of the cooling sector. We need our appliances to meet our needs without overloading the grid and threatening the health and resilience of people. Then, when power demand exceeds supply, the result is blackouts and brownouts that further make it difficult to keep cool. This results in the need for additional dirty, peaker plants to come online to provide needed power, to the detriment of air quality for the communities near these plants. During heatwaves, conventional cooling equipment puts huge stress on the power grid - making up over 70% of peak load in some states.

This is a growing public health emergency, particularly for low-income and historically under-resourced communities, and it must be addressed with the same seriousness and investment level that relief from freezing winters has always received.Ĭooling and climate change: a vicious cycleĪ critical and often overlooked component, central to expanding access to cooling, is the need to make sure we’re scaling the adoption of energy-efficient, climate-friendly cooling solutions. In this superheated new normal, access to cooling is no longer a luxury it’s a human right.

As is abundantly clear, extreme heat events are only going to become more frequent, severe, and widespread. In a summer defined by blistering heatwaves across the Northern Hemisphere, there is an urgent need to curb greenhouse gas emissions and offer people relief from the heat. Contributed by Noah Horowitz, Clean Cooling Collaborative

Download tech n9ne songs free